I love all the creativity and artistry I see here at scrapbook.com by all of its members and I was a member of this site for some time before I noticed that there wasn’t too much of the darker side of scrapping represented here. And by darker side I mean the use of darker colors, subjects including Goth, Punk, and Emo, or styles like steampunk and distress. I love the Darker Side and want to see more of it!

So therein lays the challenge: Create layouts , cards, tags, altered art, etc... that are out of your comfort zones. Come on over to the dark side!

This month’s challenge topic will be Spring Time. You can interpret this any which way you like. Here are a couple of hints: use darker colors as substitutes for colors you'd normally use for spring or focus on the "time" part of the challenge more than the "spring."

Let your imagination and your dark side loose! Have fun! I can’t wait to see what you all will come up with!

Rules for this challenge:

1. There are no real rules
2. Please post your projects between April 1 and April 30, 2011
3. First day of the next month, I will choose a winner randomly either by using a random number generator or the old tried and true names in a hat method.
4. Everyone is welcome to join this challenge at any time
5. Post as many projects as you like for this challenge. Each one will count as an entry. Entries must be submitted before midnight of the last day of the month.
6. If you receive love, please return love
7. You must participate regularly (at least five posts throughout the month) to be entered in drawing
8. If you’ve won the previous month, you can only share your pages this month. You are eligible to win again the following month.

Linking Layouts to the thread:

1. Go to the layout in your gallery.
2. Go to the Share section on the left-hand side and click on ‘Share Anywhere'.
3. Click on 'IMG code' button.
4. Copy and paste the code which starts [url...] into the forum thread.

Allowing Public Embedding:

1. Go to the layout in your gallery.
2. Click on 'Edit Image' tab at the top on the left side of the layout.
3. Scroll down to the bottom left side.
4. Check the box that says, ‘Allow Public Embedding’.

I sooooo wanna be a Darksider.
I actually consider myself more dark then pretty. I have inner struggles putting pretty on paper - though I love to admire everyone else's pretty. I just usually feel awkward on the pretty side.

Here is mine. No colors of spring to be found here. Just rusty goodness. The only thing about that was good about spring here was that the snow melted so I could actually get to the rusty shack to photograph it. Grunge Shack By Jrabs

WOW some great pages so far! I took the weekend off for the Blog Hop and my Birthday and pages started popping up like Spring Flowers... lol.
I'm feeling much better, but now my Hubs is sick. I cleaned the house for my own birthday with the same cold but he's got a 'man cold'. Sad, really sad creatures men become when sick.
I've sent him off to bed so at least I don't have to listen to 'kill me, please?' every 1/2 hour or so. Maybe now I can get some Studio time in.

Sarah, you're right! Men are the biggest babies when they are sick. When we are sick we still have to do the same chores, take care of the kids and take care of them! When they are sick, they act like they are going to die and make you work more getting them things! Lol! I hope your dh gets better and that you enjoy your studio time!

Ok here is one entry. I made this with this challenge in mind and the card of the week challenge. The inside is mainly my entry because the outside didn't turn out as DARK as I had expected, but I love it anyway. I would have never done this if it wasn't for this challenge. If it doesn't qualify I totally understand. I will be doing more because this is so fun! The paper has a sheen so it looks brighter I think from the lights reflecting in the photo then irl?
plus it's a pop up cardPop up card outside By Lillygirl7

I am AuntJo, I wont give anything away, it was a good show tonight, it always a good show when I can sing along. This year is tough, they are all so talented it's hard to choose a favorite. Casey was my first favorite, so I'm sticking with him.

Ok here is one entry. I made this with this challenge in mind and the card of the week challenge. The inside is mainly my entry because the outside didn't turn out as DARK as I had expected, but I love it anyway. I would have never done this if it wasn't for this challenge. If it doesn't qualify I totally understand. I will be doing more because this is so fun! The paper has a sheen so it looks brighter I think from the lights reflecting in the photo then irl?
plus it's a pop up cardPop up card outside By Lillygirl7